Chris Gotterup’s striking emotions – and silence – said it all

Whenever a good golf player becomes a great golf player, eventually taking the step to go to him professionally, they bring people along with them. Sometimes, many people.

Mom, dad and cousin Jimmy, safe. But even people from home – from school or church or down the road. Some of them never leave home. Others are caught on the way, in the Uni or in group conversations, vowing for their loyalty through text messages. Their journey is also made.

A bunch of older Gents go to the club in Southport Muni whenever Tommy Fleetwood is in quarrel. They remember Tommy-lad when this was not a nickname Coy all in the golf industry used. The same goes for the Royal Oaks in Dallas, and that child named Scottie. The Country Club of Columbus, down to Georgia, sends an update to membership whenever their pride and joy – Russell Henley – has made a wave on the tournament. One last praised his T2 conclusion to travelers, secure but was more focused on His willingness to call a penalty over himself. They were proud of him. Henley practiced at CCC this weekend, stopping amateurs in their footsteps as he passed. Portraush feels like their Major, too.

The delightful part about this idea is that you KNOW This fan exists, even if you can’t see it. You were not there in the Holywood Golf Club when Rory Mcilroy won the masters, but you knew the club was on the slope. You do not know how the group’s conversation reacted to the 68 opening of Brooks Koepka in Oakmont, but you know it was active.

We know because of moments like Sunday night. You’ve seen it in those tears by Chris Gotterup.

In the immediate moments after his open victory of the Scottish Genesis, Gotterup found himself standing by Amanda Balionis, the talented CBS interviewer after the round. Her first question was standard, but its second was special. She heard a small crack in the first response of Gotterup and asked about it in the simplest way:

We could hear the emotion in your voice. Why?

He pulled out. He wiped his forehead. Then his eyes. Then another extraction, this deeper.

“Gimme a second,” he said.

Interview Mission! Not in the sense of getting a topic to cry, but making them think. To move through adrenaline following his body in his basic truths. Why IS He so exciting? He had to ask himself if even for just one second separate.

“I don’t know if I will be able to bring it out,” started gotterup again, “but … all at home.”

He stopped again to wipe his eyes and continue breathing. Words are better viewed than read.

There are many other things in those emotions as well. Like the end of it by 2024, when he lost more cuts than he made. Or the close thought of another hand injury, which began late in the season. It has loneliness in Pro Golf. You feel it hard when you are Related to Rory Mcilroy with nine holes to play.

“I was definitely a little bit there today,” Gotterup said. “There were many (Rory calls) and not too much” chris’es “.

Ask last year’s Scottish open champion, Bob Macintyre, for loneliness, other, or just feel like you may not have what you need. He became so serious to feel just that he flew his family to the states, and even involved them. His mother provided cooking. His father made some (legendary) caddiing. Rutgers’s Gotterup-Rob Shutte-Rob Shutte College coach-he was recruiting in Europe before some last-minute flight changes helped him meet his star studies in East Lethian. “He believed in me the way before many other people did,” Gotterup Sunday night said. People after players – can be the most interesting angle of the Pro game.

For Gotterup, those people mostly embrace the East coast. They have passed a lot of summer Sundays on the coast of Jersey. But this week, they were inside, screaming on their TV. Filmed, it was just after the sun rises that they were screaming for the displaced time to prevent them from seeing gotterup at all. You know this fan exists, even if you can’t see it. When their husband made Bogey from the street bunker to 1, they had to think exactly as it was:

“Oh, S – T. Here we go.”

You can say the same thing about any holiday that comes next, whether on the beach, on the boat, or in the prediction of grass, a local favorite. But first, he gained another start abroad. Their biggest still.